South African police pull fired safe bullets, tear gas together with stun grenades to intermission upwards clashes betwixt local protesters together with immigrants at a rally in Pretoria against foreigners.
Hundreds marched towards the unusual ministry building on Friday, calling for the deportation of foreigners who they claim lead hold taken their jobs.
Police tried to hold protesters, some of them armed amongst sticks together with pipes, apart from foreigners who were gathered to limited alert virtually recent attacks.
"There was a standoff betwixt 100 protesters together with 100 or together with then generally somali nationals who had come upwards out onto the streets ... proverb they would defend themselves, their families homes together with businesses," said Al Jazeera's Tania Page, reporting from Johannesburg.
"We don't lead hold hate! We don't lead hold hate!" i unusual adult man was heard shouting inward a video posted past times eNCA, a local broadcaster. 
South Africa's unemployment charge per unit of measurement is higher upwards 25 percent.
While some foreigners are blamed for "stealing jobs", others are defendant of crimes such every bit drug-dealing.
Resentment against foreigners has sometimes turned deadly.
In 2015, anti-immigrant riots inward together with roughly the metropolis of Durban killed at to the lowest degree 6 people. In 2008, like violence killed at to the lowest degree 62 people.
The primary grouping behind Friday's protests, Mamelodi Concerned Residents, remained peaceful.
But Pretoria's police pull said inward a arguing that some other grouping of people from Atteridgeville, which is due west of Pretoria, "blocked roads, burnt tyres together with threw stones".

Zuma appeals for calm

Police Commissioner Khomotso Phahlane said officers arrested 136 people over the past times 24 hours.
Protesters handed the ministry building a petition that calls on the authorities to learn foreigners how to speak properly, according to the Associated Press intelligence agency.
"They are arrogant together with they don't know how to verbalize to people," the petition said, singling out Nigerians.
South African President Jacob Zuma condemned anti-foreigner violence together with appealed for calm.
"Many citizens of other countries living inward South Africa are law abiding together with contribute to the economic scheme of the dry reason positively," Zuma said.
"It is incorrect to [brand] all non-nationals every bit drug dealers or human traffickers."
Zuma acknowledged complaints virtually companies that hire illegal immigrants together with said the unusual affairs purpose "will live on slap-up downwards on all employers who choke on amongst this practice, which is unsafe every bit it pits locals against non-nationals".
Earlier this week, Nigerian homes together with businesses in Pretoria were attacked inward several late-night incidents, according to the Nigerian Union South Africa (NUSA).
Despite high unemployment, the dry reason is i of Africa's largest economies together with remains a depict for people from impoverished nations. 
Businesses run past times Somalis, Ethiopians together with others are ofttimes targeted inward anti-foreigner protests.
The periodic backlash has wound the icon of tolerance South Africa has tried to introduce to the footing afterward apartheid.
Amnesty International blamed authorities' "failure to address toxic populist rhetoric that blames together with scapegoats refugees together with migrants".
Amid the anti-immigrant sentiment, authorities statistics present a drib inward the break of foreign-born people.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 written report final twelvemonth said the 1.6 meg foreign-born people was downwards from 2.2 meg inward 2011, inward a dry reason of to a greater extent than than 55 meg people.